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Dr. Darcy Cordell

Assistant Professor

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E-mail: dcordell@athabascau.ca

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Dr. Darcy Cordell

DC

Dr. Darcy Cordell

Assistant Professor

Contact information

Email: dcordell@athabascau.ca

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Dr Darcy Cordell is an assistant professor in the Centre for Science at Athabasca University. He received his PhD in Geophysics from the University of Alberta in 2020. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta from 2020-2022, and was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta from 2023-2025. His research interests are broadly concerned with the topic of natural hazards and electromagnetic induction in the Earth. Past projects have included looking inside the Earth using electromagnetic geophysical imaging techniques to look for accumulations of magma at volcanoes in Chile, and imaging aqueous fluids in earthquake-prone subduction zones in Costa Rica and Alaska. More recently, his research has focused on space weather hazards in Canada whereby perturbations of Earth's geomagnetic field induce electric fields at the surface which can cause problems for large, grounded infrastructure such as power transmission networks and pipelines.


Research interests

  • Geophysics
  • Natural Hazards
  • Space Weather
  • Geomagnetism
  • Volcanology
  • Subduction Zones
  • Electromagnetic Induction
  • Magnetotellurics

Educational credentials

  • PhD (Geophysics, University of Alberta, 2020)
  • BSc Hon. (Geophysics, University of Calgary, 2013)